House of Lords Journal Volume 20: 19 July 1715

DIE Martis, 19 Julii.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

Georgius Princeps Walliæ.

PRAYERS.

E. Abingdon, Privilege:

Complaint being made to the House, and Oath made at the Bar, "That Richard Vernon, Attorney at Law, had given Order to Richard Turner, an Agent of the Earl of Abingdon's, to quit Possession of Salt, raised and deposited in a Pit called Salt Rock Pit, in the County Palatine of Chester, belonging to the said Earl, during the Time of Privilege of Parliament, in Breach of his Lordship's Privilege, and the Privilege of this House:"

Vernon to be attached, for giving his Agent Notice to quit Possession of a Salt Pit.

It is therefore Ordered, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the Serjeant at Arms attending this House, his Deputy or Deputies, do forthwith attach the Body of the said Richard Vernon, and bring him in safe Custody to the Bar of this House, to answer for his Offence; and this shall be a sufficient Warrant on that Behalf.

To Charles Stone Esquire, Serjeant at Arms attending this House, his Deputy or Deputies, and every of them.

Riots and Tumults, Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for preventing Tumults and riotous Assemblies, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing the Rioters."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House, To-morrow.

Militia Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee, to consider further of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for raising the Militia for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifteen, although the Month's Pay formerly advanced be not re-paid."

And, after some Time spent therein, the House was resumed.

And the Lord Delawar reported from the said Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and made some Amendments thereunto."

Which were read Twice, and agreed to, as follows:

"Pr. 2. Line 9. After ["Soldiers"], insert ["or any Part of them]."

"L. 23. After ["Soldiers"], insert ["or any Part of them"].

"L. 28. Leave out from the Word ["paid"] to the End of the Bill; and add Clause marked (A).

"(A.) Provided always, and be it Enacted, That if any Money shall be raised, as or for Trophy-money, by Virtue of any Law in being relating to the Militia of England, during the Continuance of this Act, the Person or Persons receiving the same shall and are hereby required to accompt for the same, before the Justices of the Peace, at some General Quarter Session of the Peace, in the respective County, Riding, or Division, before the First Day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixteen; and to pay the Balance, which shall be found due by the Justices on such Accompt, as they shall direct; or, in Default thereof, the Person or Persons so receiving such Money shall forfeit and pay Treble the Sum so unaccompted for, the One Moiety to the Use of the respective County, Riding, or Division, as such Justices shall appoint, the other Moiety thereof to such Person as shall sue for the same, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westm'r, wherein no Protection, Essoign, or Wager of Law, shall be allowed, nor any more than One Imparlance."

Ordered, That the said Clause be engrossed.

Panton's Bill; Boyce to be heard.

Whereas this Day was appointed, for the Second Reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for explaining an Act, made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled, An Act for vesting Part of the Estate of Thomas Panton Esquire in Trustees, to be sold, for Payment of Debts, and securing a Jointure to Mary his now Wife, and for other Purposes therein mentioned;" and to hear Counsel, upon the Petition of Anthony Boyce Gentleman, and Charlotte Maria Barkly Widow, in relation to the said Bill:

It is Ordered, That the said Bill be read a Second Time on Friday next; and that the Petitioners be heard, by their Counsel, before the Second Reading thereof, if they think fit.

E. Clanriccarde versus Bourke et al.

After hearing Counsel, upon the Petition and Appeal of the Right Honourable John Earl of Clanricarde, complaining of several Orders of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, made the Seventeenth of June One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eight, Seventeenth of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Nine, Twenty-eighth of January One Thousand Seven Hundred and Nine, and Tenth of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fourteen, in a Cause wherein Lieutenant General William Steuart and the Lady Grandison his Wife were Plaintiffs, and the Appellant and others Defendants; and praying, "That the said several Orders may be set aside and discharged, or the Petitioner otherwise relieved, as to the Wisdom of this House shall seem meet:" As also upon the several Answers of Colonel Thomas Bourke, and the said William Steuart and the Lady Grandison his Wife, put in to the said Appeal; and due Consideration had of what was offered in this Cause:

Judgement reversed.

It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, That the said several Orders complained of in the said Appeal be, and are hereby, reversed: And it is hereby Declared, That this Order and Judgement shall not in any Wise prejudice the Right of any or either of the Parties concerned.

Adjourn.

Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Mercurii, vicesimum diem instantis Julii, hora undecima Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

Die Veneris, 2 Septembris, 1715,
hitherto examined by us,

Clarendon.
Say & Seale.
A. Menev.
De Lawarr.
Foley.